| These female spirits linger near the places where, in life, they met untimely and inauspicious deaths or died childless. |
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| This inauspicious start was then followed up by a catalogue of errors and poor service. |
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| This social revolution has taken 50 years to complete but had an inauspicious start. |
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| Most influential, however, are the inauspicious occurrences that bode disaster. |
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| He does not make himself anonymous by excusing his errors and sins as functions of inauspicious circumstances or bad social influences. |
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| Despite an inauspicious start to the holiday, holidaymakers were undaunted and set out in their thousands to the various resorts. |
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| Her start in life was inauspicious, enough to put many kids on the downward slope as soon as they were out of nappies. |
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| It was an inauspicious beginning and there were many complaints about cancelled shows and misleading publicity. |
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| It seemed like quite an inauspicious, dark year at the time, but 1981 was, like 1945, a turning point up from a bottom in some sense. |
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| As Park View was considered inauspicious by many and it was dropped from the list of official residences of the Ministers. |
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| The sun made an inauspicious appearance in the morning sky, casting a orangy glow through the plum colored clouds along the horizon. |
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| Despite these inauspicious circumstances, it soon became clear that the two shared artistic and personal passions. |
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| From inauspicious beginnings, they moved up several notches until their three guitars created a vast dynamic, pulsating thrum on the final song. |
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| But the championship got off to an inauspicious start with the tsunami wreaking havoc on the Kollam coast on the inaugural day. |
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| It is a good subject for a boardroom chat, but an inauspicious one for a magazine article. |
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| Hidden away between a popular pub and a disused former bank it is an inauspicious, unimpressive building in the shadows of Aberdeen city centre. |
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| I suppose I should have expected little more of the day after such an inauspicious start. |
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| Yet out of this inauspicious premise, director Peter Hedges has created an extraordinarily fresh and universal film. |
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| Oh no, there's nothing inauspicious about your side of the bed. |
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| The new RCASC organization first proved itself during the invasion of Sicily, but it had an inauspicious baptism of fire. |
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| If Ed Miliband thought the Saturday headlines were inauspicious, then the Sunday front-page headlines were ghastly. |
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| The government's swine-flu diagnosis website for people in England was running smoothly today after an inauspicious launch yesterday. |
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| Roberto Donadoni's inauspicious start to life as the Napoli manager continued with a 2 0 defeat at Cagliari. |
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| It is now up to our new Taoiseach, who has had an inauspicious start, to come up with a solution. |
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| It is no use confining ourselves to a diagnosis of the current tragic situation and a prognosis of its inauspicious prospects, however. |
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| For David, after an inauspicious start, life looks considerably more positive. |
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| Despite inauspicious beginnings, we developed a modest coastal defence force. |
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| That is the uninspiring outcome of the German Presidency and the inauspicious message it sent out. |
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| Uneven and selective implementation of IM at least partially explains the inauspicious results. |
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| I would also note to Foreign Minister Zahar that casual slander is an inauspicious way to begin. |
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| The political climate was inauspicious as EU representatives travelled to Beijing for the eighth high-level summit with China on 5 September. |
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| The process of translating the laws thus got off to an inauspicious start, but the practice would develop over time and become better organized. |
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| The lunar calendar and almanacs are also used to determine auspicious and inauspicious days for doing various endeavors, from starting a business, to getting married. |
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| The clamour among Celtic supporters is for Strachan to have similar words in the shell-like of Thompson, who made an inauspicious comeback from injury last week. |
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| The cheapo chip has been lumbered with a puny 66MHz front side bus ever since its inauspicious launch as the cacheless Covington in the latter years of the last century. |
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| Despite an inauspicious damp start to the day, the sun came out as the 1,400 participants gathered for the event, which was held at Broughton Hall, near Skipton. |
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| However, in the hands of Scots director Saul Metzstein and writer Jack Lothian, the inauspicious subject matter is neatly woven into a slow-burning comic gem. |
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| His success there attracted the attention of Gothenburg, where, despite that inauspicious start, he became the first Swedish coach to win the Uefa Cup. |
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| Torrential rain almost drowned the celebrations as the launch of the Yorkshire Dales National Park's 50th anniversary celebrations got off to an inauspicious start. |
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| However, despite such inauspicious beginnings, by Act 2 Noel has successfully infiltrated the upper echelons of society and seems set for success. |
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| Kublai's second invasion of Japan in 1281 failed because of an inauspicious typhoon. |
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| Edipresse has not been spared this inauspicious context, but the significant investment in development made in recent years and tighter cost control have enabled satisfactory results to be achieved all the same. |
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| However, Parreira will be hoping to avoid the difficulties he endured during an inauspicious first spell as head coach, which witnessed him fail to lead South Africa beyond the first round at the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations. |
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| He could not salvage a victory for Roma on Sunday but a 2-2 draw could still be considered a success after such an inauspicious start against opponents who had dropped only two points since the start of December. |
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| We're told we are the spawn of the devil: crippled, defective, clumsy, inept, doubtful, questionable, ill-omened, inauspicious and illegitimate – and that's only by the Oxford English Dictionary. |
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| The lack of patrons, the serious shortage of foundries and the relatively high cost of materials were all factors contributing to an inauspicious environment for sculptors. |
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| It went through under less inauspicious conditions than might have been feared and, more to the point, was not accompanied by the dreaded outbreaks of fresh violence. |
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| Contrary to the nuclear era, the information age would then seem to be inauspicious for arms control for a series of political and technical reasons. |
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| From these unauspicious beginnings, Murphy went on to lead a thoroughly inauspicious life. |
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| It was an inauspicious beginning to what is now a remarkable career. |
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| This rather inauspicious start to the new millennium called for sound governance and bold and determined leadership on the part of decision makers at all levels. |
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| Despite its inauspicious beginnings, the company eventually became very profitable. |
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| Lipton turned to Charles Ernest Nicholson for his fourth challenge, and got a superb design under the inauspicious shape of Shamrock IV, with a flat transom. |
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